I think what one clearly wants is for rpm to maintain an installed file indexed keyed by md5sum. Then you can have a tool that just uses this database to identify duplicates (and doesn't take forever), or have rpm do so itself when installing new files. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list